Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 42
The bird spread his wings and flew up into the sky; and after circling for a few minutes he flew straight upwards and disappeared from sight, whilst the Boy went home to his father and mother.
Who acts: bird, Boy · What happens: spread, fly up, circle, fly, disappear, go · To what, where: wings, sky, sight
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, Boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spread | nsubj |
| 3 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wings | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spread | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 flew | cc |
| 7 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spread | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 flew | compound:prt |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 sky | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sky | det |
| 11 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flew | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 flew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 flew | cc |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 circling | mark |
| 15 | circling | circle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 flew | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 minutes | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 minutes | det |
| 18 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 minutes | amod |
| 19 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 circling | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 flew | nsubj |
| 21 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spread | parataxis |
| 22 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 upwards | amod |
| 23 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 21 flew | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 disappeared | cc |
| 25 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 flew | conj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 sight | case |
| 27 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 disappeared | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 went | punct |
| 29 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 32 went | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Boy | det |
| 31 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 went | nsubj |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 flew | conj |
| 33 | home | home | ADV | _ | 32 went | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 father | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 father | nmod:poss |
| 36 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 went | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 mother | cc |
| 38 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 father | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | the bird | bird's wings | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly up | past | the bird not said here | into the sky result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into sky=Result | ||||
| 3 | circle | gerund | bird not said here | minute | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fly | past | bird | upwards property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | disappear | past | bird not said here | sight | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from sight=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | go | past | the Boy | to Boy's father and mother; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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